Sentence examples for trained monkeys from inspiring English sources

A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation".

"According to legend, Buddhist monks trained monkeys to harvest the youngest leaves from the tops of wild tea trees," the placard explains.

Nothing was left to chance: among the extraordinary preparations, the authorities dispatched specially trained monkeys to remove nests that could house birds that might get in the way of the airplanes.

Conversely, jollying up people with depression to demand that they start being more fun is equally revolting, a refusal to acknowledge that people experiencing a rough day, or a rough week, or a rough few hours aren't going to be your trained monkeys.

Indeed, the mere presence of a grape in the other chamber (in the absence of an actual monkey able to eat it) was enough to induce sullen behaviour in a female capuchin.Dr Brosnan and Dr de Waal report that such behaviour is unusual in their trained monkeys.

More than trained monkeys.

"If tomorrow there was a trained monkey at the head of the New York Times, that trained monkey would be the one invited to the White House," she remarked.

"I'm a trained monkey.

He might as well have been a trained monkey.

Not to mention this gem: I'd rather have a trained monkey working for me than a nigger.

Or first; Jim Winstead, Jr., who blogs at Trained Monkey, sent me a link to this post from December.